The 2021 Maccabiah Games have been postponed due to scheduling conflicts with the rearranged Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which were moved back by 12 months because of the coronavirus pandemic.

International Olympic Committee in 1961.Maccabi Great Britain, who would normally expect to send a team

disappointed but completely understand the reasons behind the postponement," said chairman of Maccabi GB

Click here for more information. https://t.co/rEgzJaUk2O— Maccabi GB (@maccabigb) April 2, 2020"This

Joel Nathan, Team Maccabi GB general manager added: "We have had over 4000 applications to date and the

majority of our management team are in place."

The coronavirus and its impact will surely be the subject of study across many disciplines for years to come, but for sport and the United Kingdom Government’s agenda to get the nation active there may already be some interesting insights.

attracting an audience of around a million people ©Getty ImagesIt has taken the impact of COVID-19 for GB

initiatives, creating short exercise videos to support those in wheelchairs to remain active.By using our GB

Principality Stadium to build a temporary hospital and Cristiano Ronaldo and the Portuguese national team

GB Boxing performance director Rob McCracken is hopeful athletes on the British squad will resist the

medallist Anthony Joshua, said he had been "reassured" by conversations he has had with members of the team

Tributes have been paid to Kevin Gill - a two-time Olympian and Commonwealth Games champion - after he passed away at the age of 58.

colleagues of Kevin Gill following the incredibly sad news of his passing. https://t.co/W2cEKuyv7Z— Team

GB (@TeamGB) April 21, 2020As a coach he played a role in British success such as Peter Wilson’s London

He had great commitment and passion for shooting in Great Britain and whenever he put on the GB tracksuit

British Olympic athletes are recreating sports at home and sharing the results on video platform TikTok under the hashtag "#IsolationGames".

Team GB Hockey player @sam_ward13 has been holding his own ##IsolationOlympics.

TikTok supporting fundraising efforts for the British Red Cross, the official charity partner of Team

Nikolaou, European community manager for TikTok, added that the company is proud to be working with Team

GB.

your effort and support @britishredcross by donating using link in bio.♬ Motivation - NormaniEd Jones, Team

Richard Young and Ulrich Haas, the co-drafters of the World Anti-Doping Code, have highlighted the finality of sanctions and the Osaka ruling among reasons why athletes who would have been banned from Tokyo 2020 cannot be prohibited from participating at the rescheduled Games next year.

Association's bylaw, which banned any athlete convicted of a serious doping offence from representing Team

GB at the Games.The Osaka Rule was initially included in a draft of the World Anti-Doping Code in 2012

Winter Olympic Games after he was named on the elite Alpine skiing squad for the 2020 to 2021 season by GB

and has a best World Cup result of second, achieved at the city event in Oslo last January.Britain's team

to name a really strong squad for the 2020-2021 season across both World Cup and Europa Cup events," GB

The British Olympic Association (BOA) and the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) have reconfirmed the 15 sailors who will represent the nation at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

After unanimous agreement about the team from the RYA Olympic Selection Committee, it was decided that

Patience and Chris Grube are selected for the men's 470.The men's 49er class will see Stuart Bithell team

GB Sailing team leader, said: "I am delighted to re-confirm the 15 athletes already selected for Team

GB will stay the same for the rescheduled Games.Breaking news from @TeamGB this morning...See you all

GB supporters and the world what they're capable of in Tokyo."

Tokyo 2020 was to have marked 40 years of women’s Olympic hockey, but any celebration of the landmark will now have to wait a year. For all that, women’s hockey has been part of the sporting scene for as long as the modern Olympic Movement and, 125 years ago, the first “international” took place.

as a game for ladies is daily becoming more popular", wrote Irish player Laura Stephens.It invited a team

Hockey Club, who was known as ‘"Edith".On March 30, "Miss Johnson held the trial match and selected her team

in 1896, ended in a 2-0 defeat.In the early years, women received abuse for daring to play.The Irish team

pic.twitter.com/9IypNncR0t— Team GB (@TeamGB) October 8, 2017Hockey was included for the first time in

It was an atmosphere which helped inspire the Irish team to the final and set the seal on 125 years of

The British Olympic Association (BOA) and British Canoeing have confirmed the five athletes already nominated for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics remain selected for the rescheduled Games in 2021.

Liam Heath was named as the first canoe sprint athlete in the team last year, with the reigning Olympic

selection races and the rescheduled Olympics.The BOA and British Canoeing have confirmed the existing team

decided to reconfirm the nomination to the BOA of the five athletes previously selected to represent Team

GB at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games," said David Joy, British Canoeing's chief executive."

The team now have the certainty to plan their preparations for the Games in 2021."

McVitie's has delayed the launch of a promotional campaign featuring British athletes following the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Games will be postponed until 2021, we have made the decision to halt our marketing campaign around our Team

GB sponsorship," McVitie's brand director Emma Stowers said, according to Campaign Live."

One of the reasons cited for not holding the Glastonbury Festival in 2012 was a very basic one. London 2012 organisers had already nabbed all the portaloos that could be had for their own visitors that summer.

these sort of circumstances I would be wanting to take away some of the exhaustion on behalf of my team

over the last week regarding ticket sales is expressed by the statement currently on the website of Team

GB Live, Team GB’s official travel company."

We would still very much like to see you in Japan supporting Team GB and as soon as we have further information

We sincerely hope that you decide to travel with Team GB Live for the Olympic Games in Tokyo and thank

Britain's authorised ticket reseller (ATR) for Tokyo 2020 is offering those who have bought travel packages a transfer of their purchase or a full refund after the Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed until no later than the summer of 2021.

insidethegames has learned Team GB Live has contacted all customers who have either purchased travel

pushed back to next year in response to growing international concern over the coronavirus pandemic.Team GB

cancellation and a full refund, or the opportunity to transfer their package to the rearranged Games," Team

GB Live, operated by Sports Travel & Hospitality Group Limited and approved by the British Olympic

Numerous National Olympic Committees (NOCs) have come out in support of the decision to postpone Tokyo 2020 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

pic.twitter.com/i8Pjs9CkLb— Team GB (@TeamGB) March 24, 2020The Canadian, Brazilian, Norwegian and Australian

time for the Olympic sports movement around the world to show unity and solidarity and to work as one team

My late father-in-law Jack often spoke with understandable bitterness about his experiences as a Japanese prisoner of war (POW) during his four-and-a-half-year sojourn in the notorious Changi POW camp in Singapore, and later on the Burma Railway where brave soldiers were disgustingly treated like slaves.

Association chairman Sir Hugh Robertson had made it clear that holding them next July was untenable, and that Team

GB would follow suit.Postponement of the Games, probably until next year, is a personal blow for Abe